A few pics of the garden- taken in the last few weeks.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:06 am

This little guy was sitting on some of the ornamental rocks in the Cactus garden.

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Small Brahea "super silver"

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S.Brazoria.

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B.Eriospatha

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S.Louisiana

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Needle palms

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Beautiful Bulgarian Trachy has done well this year.

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C.Cerifera did not pull after repeated temps in the single digits (F)last winter.

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T.Fortunei,one of the trunk cut ones from a few years ago.

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Sequoia

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T.Wag

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A few T.rex "steroidal" giants...volunteers

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Small gathering on porch f plants still outside-bringing them in now as the Jade plant was stolen.

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Planted A.Americana will be dug up soon,would be nice to leave it as it
is getting quite large but I have enough to protect!-----30 palms and 30 cactus roughly.

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A few pics of the Washys(still unprotected as of Nov 14),one is about 6'
and grew over a foot of trunk this year.

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Greener/faster form of Nainital.

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C.Cooperi from up on later has about an 8' span.

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More T.ferns

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Cactus garden etc

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gpenny · Post by **gpenny** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:18 pm

Looking great Jim! Washies and Brahea especially. I have really struggled with Braheas here (humidity).

wxman · Post by **wxman** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:51 pm

Wow Jim. Looks awesome. Let's hope the roots on the washies don't get damaged this winter. I had my issues the second winter, so I will be closely monitoring your progress.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:35 pm

Another great year there.
Sorry about the jade plant.

As always, the tree ferns astound me most of all!

mnpalms · Post by **mnpalms** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:04 am

Looking great Jim! It still astounds me how well the trunk cut trachies recovered. It's just sick that some A-hole would steal one of your plants. I bet you have plenty of jealous neighbors though...

I put up my trachy enclosure but I will not be plugging it in for probably at least a couple weeks. I wanted to be ready so I don't get caught with my pants down since I'll be out of town for a while. It was 64 on Saturday so I thought it was a perfect day to finish the yard work! Even though the long-range forecast looks decent I know it can change quick in MN. Last year we had a foot of snow already by this time, though it didn't seem to bother my trachies. Just was not much fun putting up their enclosure in it though.

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:24 am

Looking good as usual!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:39 am

Awesome plants, wow.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:04 am

Eh Jim!!

Everything looks good! Especially those needle palms! Im still amazed that the tetrapanax manages to volunteer. My seed never germinated, so none for me

How is that Phyllostachys Nigra doing?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:02 am

gpenny wrote:Looking great Jim! Washies and Brahea especially. I have really struggled with Braheas here (humidity).

We will see when that cactus cover goes up,moisture in there has been a big prob!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:05 am

canadianplant wrote:Eh Jim!!

Everything looks good! Especially those needle palms! Im still amazed that the tetrapanax manages to volunteer. My seed never germinated, so none for me

How is that Phyllostachys Nigra doing?

To bad we can't do mail swaps from U.S. to Canada,they have been coming up like weeds!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:06 am

Thanks guys.....

Tim,did you see how much mulch I have piled around the Washys

?

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:14 am

WOW. you crazy. your yard looks great. Its amazing what just a few years of growth can do for a tropical look. Good luck on your wintering plans.

wxman · Post by **wxman** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:46 am

hardyjim wrote:Thanks guys.....

Tim,did you see how much mulch I have piled around the Washys ?

I might bug you for some tetrapanex in spring.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:19 am

Wow, Jim, if I had to select one favorite, I simply couldn't pick one over any other.
They are so beautiful, not a mark on them, no nutritional deficiencies, no spots, no fungus.

What a transformation in your yard from years ago.

Sorry about your stolen jade.
The nerve of that moron!

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:55 pm

wxman wrote:
hardyjim wrote:Thanks guys.....

Tim,did you see how much mulch I have piled around the Washys ?
I might bug you for some tetrapanex in spring.

I am sure they will come back!

Thanks Barb.........
could of been the $Encephalartos Princeps$

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:33 pm

hardyjim wrote:
canadianplant wrote:Eh Jim!!

Everything looks good! Especially those needle palms! Im still amazed that the tetrapanax manages to volunteer. My seed never germinated, so none for me

How is that Phyllostachys Nigra doing?

To bad we can't do mail swaps from U.S. to Canada,they have been coming up like weeds!

What's stopping ya? Ship 'em bareroot wrapped in moist paper towels, then newspaper. We have mailed back and forth numerous times. Just not banned plants.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkaWXH5Htwo

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:57 pm

Fantastic shots as usual, Jim! Your trunk cut fortunei is a prime example of just how vigorous some hardy palms can be!

As far as the Tetrapanax go, I would consider myself lucky to even have a specimen, let alone "volunteer" plants popping up everywhere!

gpenny · Post by **gpenny** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:51 am

Jim
Did you grow your Brahea from seed? If so did you treat them differently from your other palms? I can get them to germinate but have problems getting them through the seedling stage (have tried everything!).

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:07 am

I would better say nothing...'cos you didn't show your variegated Arundo

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:29 am

gpenny wrote:Jim
Did you grow your Brahea from seed? If so did you treat them differently from your other palms? I can get them to germinate but have problems getting them through the seedling stage (have tried everything!).

I bought it from Steve in Alabama last spring- NorthofFlorida palms on e-bay.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:36 am

What's stopping ya? Ship 'em bareroot wrapped in moist paper towels, then newspaper. We have mailed back and forth numerous times. Just not banned plants.

Post office told me "no, you cannot ship live plants to the US without a phytosanitary certificate".
Contents have to be declared (truthfully...but I suppose we could lie through our teeth and declare contents are a "pamphlet" or something.
Same with orders coming from U.S. nurseries, they won't do it, unless you sign that there's no responsibility to the nursery if the plants are confiscated at the border.

As though palm seedlings would affect Canada's vast and lucrative palm plantations

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:37 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:I would better say nothing...'cos you didn't show your variegated Arundo

Igor

Here s a picture with the giant reed grass(Arundo donax)-to the right of the steps....

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:49 am

GREAT! Thanks, Jim!I believe it was a quite hard season to keep your plants watered properly. Of course they had to reward you for the endless watering...

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:38 pm

I only watered them enough to keep them alive.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:17 pm

great plants Jim! I bet your Sequoiadendron will take off next season. I remember mine growing 3' per season.....they grow fast.

Okanagan desert-palms · Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:41 pm

Jim great pics of your yard. Everything is growing great. What size was that Butia eriospatha when planted?

John

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:15 am

Thanks Tim

I am going to try and give it a little more shelter this year,if I don't get to lazy...

John

I think it was bigger!

The leaves were more stretched out from nursery greenhouse growth.

It has taken a few years to get established,speeded up a little this year.

Picture is from 12-23-08.
I guess the trunk has gotten bigger....

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:28 am

Yes, do protect that sequiodendron a little longer.

I'll follow that Butia eriospatha in your garden. That's one I'd like to get someday.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 6:21 pm

It has proven very tough as it has had all kinds of stupid stuff
thrown over it and managed to just stay warm enough the first few years.
I am taking better care of it now

CTPalm · Post by **CTPalm** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:19 pm

great pics Jim!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:14 pm

Thanks

The Brugs, in these pics-about 7-8' tall.

they sure smelled purdy

E.ventricosum-should be fun next year

Washys-still looking good after 19-22F this morning-picture is from 10/3-2011

Oct,11 2011-less is more

Hard year for the Abyssinian,by the time the heat went away it was already to dry-

still,about 13' tall

Variegated Yucca Aloifolia

T.Takil

Castors reached about 13'

This stuff-

Nice picture of a Takil

Thai giant before it was struck down by high winds(mid July),
theres always next year,I guess but it was really something for a while there!

Are these things cool are what?

Cactus garden

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:17 pm

Re Abyssinian...do you rely solely on rainfall for watering?
You did say it barely rained at all but I thought you supplemented with hand watering/sprinkler?

That cactus bed's plants are maturing so nicely, look at that agave!
very nice.

Love the Washies.
They'll need more than a fence next winter, Jim.

Thanks for the pics.
Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:34 am

Jim, are the last pic yucca flowers pinkish or this is just light artifact?

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:59 am

Are those Alocasia infront of the brigs/albyssian?

And where is that Phyllostachys hiding?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:52 pm

Barb

I did water it some but I didn't stand out there to long

Yes,Igor they change color from light/darker as they age from top to bottom.

Jesse

Here is a picture of the Black bamboo I planted.

Mid July

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:17 pm

Thanks Jim and what exactly yucca is changing colour?

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 5:23 am

Jim, wait till next year! Thats a good size for it to take over.... You gonna protect this year?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:44 pm

canadianplant wrote:Jim, wait till next year! Thats a good size for it to take over.... You gonna protect this year?

Yea,I think I'll wrap it in burlap or/and some frost cloth are the like.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 5:38 pm

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Thanks Jim and what exactly yucca is changing colour?

Igor

Name of the flowering Yucca is Manfreda maculosa.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:26 am

Thanks! I've heard about it. Any seeds have been ripened by the chance?